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N A £ 9 N £ IV S LETTER 


NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS 

Frank £. Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, III* 


August I, 1943 


SEND IN YOUR UNI LEVEL QUESTIONNAIRE PRONTO!! 

Mike Hanna, WHCU, Chairman of the Joint AER-NAEB Committee to study the 

EXTENT ANO EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL BROADCASTING SAYS THE 
INFORMATION ON HAND IS NOV,’ BEING COMPILED AND ANALYZED* 

Furthermore, he says a number of NAEB stations haven*? responded to the 

QUESTIONNAIRE. THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE C A E» So IF YOU HAVEN * T SENT IN 

THE DOPE ON YOUR OWN PROGRAMS, V’H V NOT 00 IT NOW. , 0 IT NOW BEFORE YOU 

delay action again* What is that old adage about never putting off to 

TOMORROW.—‘‘STOP ScHOOLEY, I ’ LL SEND MINE IN PRONTO." 

WNAD PKOCRA;.. ,;£R I IS ATTSLTI C«\ 

A recent issue of TIME MAGAZINE carried an article on the “Indians for 
Indians Hour” program broadcast by University radio station WNAD. The 

PROGRAM, HEADED BY Don WHISTLER, NORMAN, HAS ALSO RECEIVED NATIONAL 
PUBLICITY IN VARIETY MAGAZ I ME , TUNE IN radio JOURNAL AND THE OMAHA 
WORLD-TELEGRAM. 

Virginia Hawk, WNAD director, has received a request from the Congressional 
Library in Washington, D* C a , for recordings of the program for their 
files, ano the Columbia Broadcasting System has asked permission to 
include it in the School of the Air series to be broadcast next fall. 
“Indians for Indian Hour" may be heard on WNAD (640 kilocycles) from 
1:00 to 1:30 on Tuesday* 

WNYC WINS “SPECIAL Al AQ» BILLBOARD POLL 

WNYC, New York City’s Municipal Station won a "Special Award for out¬ 
standing PUBLIC SERVICE" ACCOrDING TO SELECTIONS OF THE AWARDS COMMITTEE 
CONSISTING OF JOHN K a HUTCHENS, RADIO EDITOR OF THE Ne’ YORK TtMES, 

Harriet Van Horne, radio editor of the World-Telegram, 8en Gross, radio 
editor of the New V'ork Daily News, Leonaro Tf.aube, editor of Billboard, 
in Billboard Magazine’s Sixth Annual Radio Fusl.icitv Exhibit Survey* 

The statement of the Committee in granting WNYC this special recognition 
reads in part,*,* *“The City outlet, being non-commercial, tackles 

PUBLICITY TO ROUND OUT ITS PUBLIC SERVICE IMPRINT WHERE THE STANDARD 
STATION SHOOTS FOR SPACE BECAUSE IT MEANS DOLLARS AND CENTS, News ABOUT 
RATIONING, SELECTIVE SERVICE, OCD AND CONSUMER ACTIVITIES ARE STANDARD 
WITH WNYC. In ADDITION, THEY DO A WHOPPING JOB ON THE CULTURAL SIDE* 

Typical of the latter ”as its annual festival of American music. 1 The 

STATEMENT WENT ON TO ADD THAT 11 I T (WNYC) OPERATES ON A SHOESTRING, THE 
POLITICAL ’OUTS 9 GUN FOR IT EVERY YEAR, YET DESPITE EVERY HANDICAP IT 
PRODUCES PROGRAM SCHEDULES THAT ARE STRICTLY IN THE BIG GUN CLASS." 






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°Page 2 


..August I, 1943 


Thus reads the announcement in the current edition of Billboard telling 
how and why WNYC was selected for this Special AwarDo In expressing thp 

THANKS OF THE ENTIRE STAFF FOR THIS RECOGNITION, MORRIS S 0 NOVIK, 

DIRECTOR OF THE C|TY STATION, PROMISED THAT "THIS AWARD SHALL STAND AS 
A SYMBOL OF PAST ACHIEVEMENTS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME *CT AS AN INCENTIVE 
TOWARDS MORE AND GREATER SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ClTY OF NEW Y0 RK„ m 

WTAW GETS INCREASED FACILITIES 

WTAW, Texas A & M College has been granted daytime operation on 1150 kc 
BY THE FCC. WTAW had PREVIOUSLY SHARED TIME WITH KTBC, AUSTIN, ON THIS 
FREQUENCY « J. J» WOOLKET IS PROGRAM DlRECTORo 

Indiana presents” in naeb script exchange 

Book Two of h Indiana Writers, h a series of radio dramatizations dedicated 

TO NATIVE AND ADOPTED WRITERS OF INDIANA HAS BEEN FORWARDED BY H 0 J, 

SKORNIA TO THE NAEB SCRIPT EXCHANGE. The BOOK CONTAINS 26 ORIGINAL 
SCRIPTS WRITTEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SkORNIA BY STUDENTS AT INDIANA* 

RANDOM NOTES 

Waldo Abbot has ground out another of those news letters to his studes. 
makes #12 in the series to his former students... o 0n April 4, 1934, 

John Callahan, Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, issued 

WHAT IS CONCEDED TO BE THE FIRST RADIO TEACHING LICENSE EVER GIVEN, TO 

harold a 0 Engel, director of the Wisconsin College of the Air over WHA„ 

nAROLD, PAST NAEB PRESIDENT, IS NOW A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARM Y«... WONDER 
WHY SOME OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE 00N 1 T WRITE ME A LINE OR TWO FOR 
INCLUSION IN SOME FUTURE NEWS LETTERS— C A RL MenZER, H A ROLD McCaRTY, 

Harold Lngel, Mike Hanna, Gibbs Williams, MC Jensen, W. I. Griffith, 
ib Pettegrew? o.o.D resser Dahlstead, former Hollywood Blue, spends some 

OF HIS SPARE TIME ANNOUNCING ON WILL THESE DAYS. He 0 S STATIONED AT 

Chanute ield....One of Bob Coleman's former announcers at WKAR dropped 
in to visit WILL stud ios.... Have you sent in your AER-NAEB questionnaires?.. 
What would you like to see in future NAEB NEWS LETTERS?. . ..Guess George’ 
Jennings is busy with plans for first full year of operation for WBEZ.... 
What happened to Allen Miller after he returned to West Coast?....Is 
Elmer Sulzer in the army of navy, or is he just too busy to write?.... 

How are things at KFKU and WNAD with Miss Seaman and Miss Hawks?.... 

Regard.s to Past Prexy Ingham. .» .Major Powell—what*s happened to Charley 

D UD LEY? 9M ,BBe is FURNISHING A NUMBER OF NAEB STATIONS WITH TRANSCRIPTIONS 
OF BBC PROGRAMS...Got ANY PERSONNEL PROBLEMS AT YOUR STATION?... ,Th| S IS 
NOT THE Wake, but Help, Help, Help, anyway. 

FCC ACTIONS 

WNYC, New York City, granted authority to determine operating power by 

DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF ANTENNA POWER FOR AUXILIARY TRANSMITTER. (7/6/43) 

WNYC, New York Sty, applied for Special Servic Authorization to operate 

FROM 6 A.M. TO 10 P.M., WITH POWER OF I KV; , AMENDED REGARDING DIRECTIONAL 
ANTENNA. (7/12/43) 








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WTAW, Texas A. & M,, granted modificat son of license to increase hours 

OF OPERATION FROM SPECIFIED HOURS DIVIDING USE OF FREQUENCY 1150 KC WITH 
KTBC, TO FULL DAYTIME OPERATION ON SAME FREQUENCYo (7/?0/43) 

WO I, Iowa State, applied for Special Service Authorisation to operate 

FROM 6 A.Mo TO LOCAL SUNRISE, GST, WITH POWER OF 5 KW FOR THE PERIOD 

ending February 1, I944 0 (7/26/43) 


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